RE: Still Considering Debian - But Stuck!
> threads
Note that RH 9 includes the new NPTL threading libraries. This is
probably why your threaded Java stuff works so well in RH9 (unless you
include the environment variables that force Java back to the old
threading model).
NPTL is not in Debian stable. Getting it there, I suspect, would be a
trick, because you would have to install the 2.3.x series of glibc,
which would affect your entire system.
I'm not sure if NPTL is in unstable or not. Unstable is not "unstable"
BTW, I've run it on many machines over the years. It just takes a
little more "watching".
> Debian is too old in other areas to properly handle kernel 2.4?
No, I have 3.0 running 2.4.x kernels.
> Finally, while I'm messing around with the kernel, I'd have
> to include
> support for ext3fs.
I think I was able, without any trouble, to backport the ext3 utils to
stable. I think it was a matter of just apt-get source package; cd
package; debian/rules binary; dpkg --install...
--cro
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